That song has been in my head for two days since I say the movie again. I just had to hear it again. Here's a link if you want to hear it again, too:
Elmer Gantry - On My Way To Canaan's Land
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fMXR2wBcLIM
Whew! It's nice to hear it again.
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This song is on CD!!
Elmer Gantry: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] [ENHANCED] [SOUNDTRACK]
http://www.amazon.com/Elmer-Gantry-Original-Soundtrack-Enhanced/dp/B00 000AEQ7
17. I'm On My Way (Burt Lancaster-Vocals)Looks like that is really him singing!
i was having the same trouble with finding another song from a different movie. but i managed to separate the audio from the dvd. so try and download dvd to ipod converter or something.
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I like this song too, and I am sure it must be a genuine Negro spiritual. I noticed the smiling woman in the congregation while this song is being sung. There is a teen-age boy with her, presumably her son, and the woman smiles while Elmer Gantry is singing the spiritual. There is a close-up shot of her before she joins in with the singing. I believe this woman is portrayed by the late Isabel Sanford of "The Jeffersons," but she is uncredited. Would someone please check this out. Ms. Sanford was born in 1917 and would have been about 43 when "Elmer Gantry" was filmed in 1960.
I looked up Isabel Sanford's IMDB page. It says she was in Broadway for 30 years before film and TV. She was in Guess Who is Coming to Dinner in 1967, her earliest job listed. It seems unlikely that seven years of her movie career would be missing. I personally doubt it is her.
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